Tag: Alice Ryrie
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The health food crusade and the super-food saint: exploring the discourse of healthy eating
Alice RyrieManchester, United Kingdom In our increasingly secular society, the value of health is rising. Moral values that used to be dominated by religion are now a matter of health: “in many ways the church has been replaced by the gymnasium.”1 Due to the rising pressure to be healthy, new problems have arisen about what…